Casimir Radon posted:My dad has worked a lot of double shifts across 30+ years of law enforcement, and hasn't shot anybody yet. Sounds like a waste of tax dollars.
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A serious pro-click for people that think "oh hurricanes aren't all that dangerous" https://www.wunderground.com/resources/education/hugo1.asp tl;dr P3 Orions are tough loving aircraft.
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Sep 10, 2018 15:50
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MA-Horus posted:A serious pro-click for people that think "oh hurricanes aren't all that dangerous" I love how the P3 Orion's turbines are just inverted versions of the C-130 turbines 
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Sep 10, 2018 15:56
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Stultus Maximus posted:It's good fertilizer. Yeah but after a certain point fertilizing turns into dumping the waste from your industrial pork enterprise on the fuckin ground.
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Sep 10, 2018 15:57
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Milo and POTUS posted:At least have her get a bunch of water bottles and dried food prepared. Flashlights, pet food if you got them. If she keeps family photos, keep that poo poo prepared in air/watertight cases. poo poo like that. My mother laughed at me for having a flash light. Since all phones are a flash light. Why would you want something not a phone as a flash light.
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Sep 10, 2018 15:58
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Stultus Maximus posted:It's good fertilizer. Yeah, but unlike horse manure, generally isn't easily confined because they just have massive LAKES of hog poo poo/piss. And Hogs are notorious for being disease vectors.
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Third World Reggin posted:My mother laughed at me for having a flash light. Since all phones are a flash light. Why would you want something not a phone as a flash light. That reminds me, D&D was circular fire squading itself a month or two ago about how only white people owned flashlights and it was a classist thing or some other bullshit.* *I own three flashlights and two headlamps.  That Works posted:Feel free to tell your mom any of this if its useful. Yeah, this is def. something people don't realize or factor when it comes to evacuating or preparing ahead of time. A day, hell, hours can make a massive difference in getting out of an evacuation zone and stressing the gently caress out over gas or gridlock. Casualties from people just stroking out in traffic or whatever are a thing that gets accounted for, that's how much of a problem it can be. And people with pets, if you don't have food that's easy to transport along with leashes and whatnot, change that. The whole thing about shelters not letting pets in, after Katrina, even FEMA under Bush knew how much of a loving problem that was because a ton of people would opt to stay home with their pets and what not. So they started pushing regional and state EMA's to start planning for animal sheltering or letting people bring their pets in so long as they were crated, etc. I have no idea how much the program has moved forward since I stopped working with FEMA, but I can't imagine it's regressed much. The beauty of FEMA's guidelines is that when they get pushed down to the state and local level agencies, even when someone as dumb as Trump gets elected, the state and local level stuff usually remains in place without change. You'll also find that even the most vocal "small government" types in areas commonly impacted by hurricanes and storms, tend to leave EMA agencies the gently caress alone.
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Sep 10, 2018 16:24
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Brother lives in Wilmington. Is it about to be hosed? e: oh hey Hugo, the hurricane that hosed up our house when I was 5 and gave me a lifelong thunderstorm apprehension.
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Sep 10, 2018 16:27
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MA-Horus posted:A serious pro-click for people that think "oh hurricanes aren't all that dangerous" That story is loving nuts.
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Sep 10, 2018 16:29
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As a veteran of many ”almost mandatory evacuation” falls in Charleston at the heart of low country where light rain causes flooding, I’ve had two autumns where water was one inch from the very raised, mostly waterproof treshold. We’d had carried all stuff upstairs, and our rucksacks were packed with survival gear and thr cars were loaded, with 5 ferrets, three cats, and two dogs, and two bunnies, between two cars. The water started going down on day three, so we never left. However, being so close to coast, and kayaking on our street, one thing that is cheap and handy is a simple Maritime handheld emergency VHF is a great buy for 30 bucks. In places like Charleston and other coastal areas, the coast guard will boat on streets, can be reached from radio ”I’m on the roof of a house at 27 Paddlecreek Avenue” is enough for them to figure out where to sail.
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Bolton is threatening the ICC with sanctions: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/09/threatens-icc-judges-sanctions-180910113100340.html
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Vahakyla posted:As a veteran of many ”almost mandatory evacuation” falls in Charleston at the heart of low country where light rain causes flooding, I’ve had two autumns where water was one inch from the very raised, mostly waterproof treshold. We’d had carried all stuff upstairs, and our rucksacks were packed with survival gear and thr cars were loaded, with 5 ferrets, three cats, and two dogs, and two bunnies, between two cars. This. VHF channel 16 will be used by anyone with a good boating setup and for Harvey and other storms recently stuff like the "Cajun Navy" can use these reports as well to send a boat over to help out.
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Sep 10, 2018 16:37
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CommieGIR posted:Bolton is threatening the ICC with sanctions: This walrus looking motherfucker deserves to die making GBS threads himself in squalor and ignored by all
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:This walrus looking motherfucker deserves to die making GBS threads himself in squalor and ignored by all Ah yes, the Caro "special", excellent choice sir.
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Sep 10, 2018 16:40
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CommieGIR posted:Bolton is threatening the ICC with sanctions: What a stupid motherfucker. Can't wait to see how that works out for them when they sanction some Dutch prosecutor because they hurt President Piss Baby's feelings. Also love the whole "We're gonna kick out the PLO's station in DC because they have the audacity to go to the ICC with complaints about Israel!" gently caress these people.
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Sep 10, 2018 16:44
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After Katrina and Issac I have zero loving stomach for weathering a storm in place, even with ample supplies. Hatch down your poo poo and take a 4 day Airbnb vacation and let the insurance people sort it the gently caress out. Also make sure you have wind / flood / storm / fire / whatever homeowners insurance
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Sep 10, 2018 16:46
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Pretty loving rich to accuse somebody who isn't Israel of holding up the peace process.
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Sep 10, 2018 16:54
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from gbs this should be normal, but navy heading out due to weather https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/norfolk/us-fleet-forces-prepares-to-move-out-for-hurricane-florence/1427422328 quote:NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) -- U.S. Navy Ships with the U.S. Fleet Forces (USFF) Command in the Hampton Roads area are making final preparations this weekend in anticipation of Sortie Condition Charlie if needed, U.S. Fleet Forces Public Affairs states in press release. sucks if you are still in
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Sep 10, 2018 16:58
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Brother lives in Wilmington. Is it about to be hosed? My aunt lives there too. Looks like it’s directly in the path.
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Sep 10, 2018 17:05
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Thanks again guys. I shared your stories and advice with Mom and they've already got the shopping done. The point got across because this is one of the rare times where I sound scared to her. She won't leave but they've got gas cans filled to go.
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DoktorLoken posted:My aunt lives there too. Looks like it’s directly in the path. Deus vult.
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redneck nazgul posted:In other "Holy gently caress, Hurricane Florence is going to kill people" news, North Carolina has a bunch of giant hog farms. Specifically, the type that have giant lagoons of pig poo poo that just festers because it's cheaper to buy up a couple adjacent acres and build a basin than it is to responsibly dispose of it. They look like this. Oh boy a chance to post my favorite hosed up article. This was actually the first thing I thought of when I saw the storm tracks: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/boss-hog-the-dark-side-of-americas-top-pork-producer-68087/ quote:The drugs Smithfield administers to its pigs, of course, exit its hog houses in pig poo poo. Industrial pig waste also contains a host of other toxic substances: ammonia, methane, hydrogen sulfide, carbon monoxide, cyanide, phosphorous, nitrates and heavy metals. In addition, the waste nurses more than 100 microbial pathogens that can cause illness in humans, including salmonella, cryptosporidium, streptocolli and girardia. Each gram of hog poo poo can contain as much as 100 million fecal coliform bacteria. and another little tidbit quote:Spills aren’t the worst thing that can happen to toxic pig waste lying exposed in fields and lagoons. Hurricanes are worse. In 1999. Hurricane Floyd washed 120,000.000 gallons of unsheltered hog waste into the Tar, Neuse, Roanoke, Pamlico, New and Cape Fear rivers. Many of the pig-poo poo lagoons of eastern North Carolina were several feet underwater. Satellite photographs show a dark brown tide closing over the region’s waterways, converging on the Albemarle-Pamlico Sound and feeding itself out to sea in a long, well-defined channel. Very little freshwater marine life remained behind. Tens of thousands of drowned pigs were strewn across the land. Beaches located miles from Smithfield lagoons were slathered in feces. A picture taken at the time shows a shark eating a dead pig three miles off the North Carolina coast. Read the whole thing if you want fun stories about people drowning in pig lagoons or dying of poisonous fumes downwind of them.
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Relentlessboredomm posted:Oh boy a chance to post my favorite hosed up article. This was actually the first thing I thought of when I saw the storm tracks: Has NC done anything to regulate this or lol it's legislator has been controlled by Republicans so of course not? Also, Florence is a Cat 4 already https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...m=.336774928507 Thats not good, they said it wouldn't intensify into a 4 until tomorrow..
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Sep 10, 2018 17:22
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At this point, calling it the "Peace Process" feels positively Orwellian
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Sep 10, 2018 17:25
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Yeah I'm going grocery shopping today. Not because I'm that worried, but because the place will be picked clean by Wednesday when I was planning on going. I told my PM I'm not working on-site Thursday because if metro floods out I'm not taking any chances.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Fu-v490-c
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Silver lining, maybe this will cancel the team building exercise my office is holding on Friday that I have no interest going to. Also gonna make a Costco and grocery run tonight, weeeeeee. Also replaced my grills propane tank a few weeks back so I'm good on that front if I lose power.
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Sep 10, 2018 17:36
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Holy gently caress this thing is gonna have a body count higher then Katerina.
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Sep 10, 2018 17:47
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Ron White was the only one from the Blue Collar Comedy Tour guys that I always enjoyed. Haven't checked on him lately so, hopefully he's not a chud (probably is)
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BigDave posted:Holy gently caress this thing is gonna have a body count higher then Katerina. Doubtful. Unless you really mean some Hurricane named Katerina rather than Katrina.
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Can't wait for the plague beast nurgle fest that will be North Carolina after hundreds of Hog Lagoons are spread everywhere.
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I wonder if we’ll see our first cat 6 hurricane this year
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So very much not regretting transferring from DC to LA and selling house last month. Seven hurricanes in Miami in the early 2000s were enough for me. Get out, goons.
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Evil SpongeBob posted:So very much not regretting transferring from DC to LA and selling house last month. You ever coming back to discord you old gently caress Are you the right SpongeBob because if not sorry Riot Carol Danvers fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Sep 10, 2018 |
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BigDave posted:Holy gently caress this thing is gonna have a body count higher then Katerina. This isn’t Puerto Rico. Help will come unless someone points out that there’s a lot of brown people there.
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All I want to do is retire near water before I’m half in the grave. But trying to forecast where the edge of the water and death zone will be is a real pain.
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mlmp08 posted:All I want to do is retire near water before I’m half in the grave. But trying to forecast where the edge of the water and death zone will be is a real pain. And a lot of banks/insurance groups are cutting back on coverage/loans to waterfront property near the ocean. Good luck.
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mlmp08 posted:All I want to do is retire near water before I’m half in the grave. But trying to forecast where the edge of the water and death zone will be is a real pain. Friend, have you heard the good news called the Great Lakes? Sure it is a cold hellscape for half the year but, the other half is pleasant.
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Nick Soapdish posted:Friend, have you heard the good news called the Great Lakes? Sure it is a cold hellscape for half the year but, the other half is pleasant. And thanks to global warming, can now more easily spawn their own hell funnels! 
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BigDave posted:Holy gently caress this thing is gonna have a body count higher then Katerina. LingcodKilla posted:This isn’t Puerto Rico. Help will come unless someone points out that there’s a lot of brown people there. Notice he said "Katerina" but he meant "Katrina" also he didn't say Maria, so he is technically correct.
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